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Since its early years, the United Nations has issued a series of international recommendations on population and housing censuses under the title “Principles and Recommendations for Population and...

This wall chart features tables and graphics regarding the population in urban and rural areas around the world in 2011.

This wall chart features tables and graphics regarding the population in urban and rural areas around the world in 2014.

World Fertility Patterns 2013 provides the latest available data about the level, trends and age pattern of fertility for countries and regions of the world.

This third Report presents a compilation of key indicators of fertility, nuptiality, contraceptive use and population policies regarding childbearing for 192 countries. The data covers the extremes of...

The World Mortality 2013 provides a comprehensive set of mortality estimates for the world’s countries and their aggregates, along with an inventory of the availability of primary data for the...

The wall chart provides key demographic indicators for each development group, major area, region and country for the most recent period.

This informative wall chart provides useful statistical data on world population for some 229 countries, or regions. Data pertain to annual growth rates, crude birth rates, crude death rates, life...

This report provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of population policies and dynamics for 197 countries since the mid-1970s. Updated biennially, it documents changes in key aspects of...

The World Mortality Report 2011, prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, provides a comprehensive set of mortality...

This informative wall chart provides useful statistical data on world population. The data pertain to annual growth rates, crude birth rates, crude death rates, life expectancy and infant mortality.

This data booklet summarises and presents key fertility indicators on world fertility patterns from the latest population estimates and projections, World Population Prospects 2015. The relevant data...

The World Mortality 2015 provides a comprehensive set of mortality estimates for the world’s countries and their aggregates, along with an inventory of the availability of primary data for the...

The Handbook on Economic Tendency Surveys provides best practices and harmonized principles on how to conduct economic tendency survey from sample selection, questionnaire design, survey questions...

Broad Economic Categories (BEC) aims to analyse international trade statistics by large economic classes of goods and services, based on the main outputs of corresponding industries, to facilitate...

This manual sets out an internationally agreed framework for the compilation and reporting of statistics of international trade in service. While it is primarily a guide for statistical compilers, it...

This publication provides a comprehensive methodological framework for collection and compilation of international merchandise trade statistics in all countries, irrespective of the level of...

These recommendations were developed to assist countries establish and strengthen information systems for water, which in turn support the design and evaluation of better water policies. In particular...

The wall chart on Urban Population, Development and the Environment 2011 presents the latest data available for 15 indicators of urban population, living conditions in urban settlements and economic...

This Revision, which comes in three disks containing estimates and projections on national populations by five-year age group and sex for 1950-2100, provides a comprehensive and consistent set of...